Dhobi Ghat (Ep 8) – Assam Riots

Madhu Trehan discusses the media’s coverage of Assam with Ashutosh, Punya Prasun Bajpai and Santosh Desai. Why did Hindi channels not report from Assam for the first ten days? And why was there so much music and drama in the coverage which followed? And much more.

Madhu Trehan discusses the media’s coverage of Assam with Ashutosh, Punya Prasun Bajpai and Santosh Desai. Why did Hindi channels not report from Assam for the first ten days? And why was there so much music and drama in the coverage which followed? And much more.

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THIS GUY PRASUN VAJPAYEE,S UGLY BAIS AGAINST RAJ THACKERAY IS VERY TRANSPARENT HE IS NOT DISTURBED BY THE GATHERING OF THE ANTI NATIONAL LUMPEN MUSLIM CROWD WHICH BURNT PUBLIC PROPERTY BEAT ON DUTY POLICEMEN AND MOLESTED POLICEWOMEN IT WAS THE 1ST TIME IN THE HISTORY OF MUMBAI AND MAHARASHTRA WHERE ON DUTY POLICEWOMEN WERE MOLESTED FOR THIS CREEP BAJPAI FROM THE LAND OF MULAYAM AND MAYAWATI IT MAY BE AN EVERYDAY AFFAIR HE SEEMS TO BE MORE BOTHERED ABOUT RAJ THACKERAY,S RALLY WHICH WAS TOTALLY ORDERLY AND DISCPLINED AND I WAS A PERSONEL WITNESS TO THIS AND ABOUT THE PSEUDO SECULAR ASUTHOSH LESS SAID THE BETTER MADHU EXPOSED HIM ON THAT STUPID COVERAGE OF ASSAM IT IS THIS HINDI CHANNEL WHICH RAJ EXPOSED IN HIS LAST TIMES NOW INTERVIEW AND FOR GOOD REASON

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Using all capitals is not a very persuasive argument, unfortunately.

Vijay Shanker

Just like Madhu Trehan, we are also fed up with the excessive use of music in news reportings. Electronic media seems to have got the taste of making “Box Office Hit Films” on a daily basis out of actual incidences and naming them “NEWS”. Every Channel is behaving like an individual bollywood producer aiming to earn in crores out of each story by adding Masala to it.